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Potty training

Is your child ready for potty training at nursery? Here's the place for all your toilet training questions.

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new baby due in 6 wks, is it silly time to start thinking about potty for ds?

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bootus · 27/01/2011 18:35

As title suggests really, ds 2.5, not ENTIRELY sure he is ready yet but prepared to give it a shot (esp as in-laws on my case) but new sibling due in few weeks and not sure if am being bonkers thinking about it???

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Iggly · 27/01/2011 18:39

Surely you should wait until you think your DS is ready? Sod the inlaws. I thought there was a chance of regression when a new sibling comes along so could be difficult? Maybe you can introduce the potty, let him sit on it etc but not actually training cold turkey as such?

walesblackbird · 27/01/2011 18:41

Depends on how your child manages potty training. One of my boys got it within a few weeks, one took months and my daughter was clean and dry within 5 days! Give it a go and see how he takes to it. I found putting the potty on the floor in front of the tv and using Smarties as a bribe worked really well for my daughter - but then she does like to eat!

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bootus · 27/01/2011 18:49

Thanks for replies.....I'm very much in two minds about his 'readiness', somethimes I think yes, other times no way, I may just see how we get on but not make him (or me) feel too pressured. And I think some form of chocolate bribe sounds very do-able :-)

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walesblackbird · 27/01/2011 18:53

It may be just us but I found my daughter much, much easier than my sons! The one good thing about boys though is that you don't have to learn 'the lift' ... lifting my daughter into the right position when she was caught short was something I never quite managed. She'd invariably manage to wee all down her legs and into her socks/shoes!

Much easier with boys who can just point - however inaccurately - into the jam jar that I used to carry around with me!!

missmapp · 27/01/2011 19:02

I potty trained ds1 in the august and had ds2 in september, it was fine. i hadnt planned on it, but ds1 ( then about2.4) came home from nursery one day saying he wanted to wear big boy pants, so I thought Id give it a try. He didnt regress when I had ds2, the only problem was that hed always need a wee when I was b.feeding ds2, but we managed. If your ds is ready, go for it, but otherwise wait, theres no hurry!!

seashore · 27/01/2011 19:03

18 mths ago I was in the exact same position, new baby due, dd still in nappies, now I wish I had potty trained her then (she wasn't ready and I didn't want to push it) once ds showed up she became determined she should have things the same as him and that includes nappies, we're making little progres with potty training. When he crawls she crawls too etc. What do you do?

louby78 · 06/02/2011 17:35

Speaking as someone with a 9 week baby and a now 2.5 yr old I say WAIT!! I tried in the summer when she turned too and was so not ready. Everyone I spoke to said when they hit 2.4 they are often ready to start but no earlier than that as don't get it as a general rule (obviously exceptions). I had in-laws on the case too but so glad I waited. When baby arrived she was so unsettled I can't begin to imagine what she'd have been like if I was trying to potty train or had started without her getting it. She really struggled for a few weeks and really think we'd have regressed with potty training. 8 weeks after DS born she decided to wear pants herself and I'm so glad we waited as she has really settled down now and got used to her brother so we can focus on potty training. Working well. Don't feel pressured.

ramblingmum · 07/02/2011 21:18

My did start potty training dd1 who was 2.5 6 weeks before dd2 was born. She seemed ready, I was at home and didn't want to wash two lots of nappies. But I would not recommend it she always seemed to need a wee just as I started to feed dd2 and she was very slow with lots of regressions. In the end she wasn't reliably trained of a year.

NickiAndAlex · 09/02/2011 11:26

I've heard that you shouldn't make major changes to the routine close to a baby being born (10 weeks either side). If you potty train close to a baby coming, it's possible he might regress - some kids do after months of being dry when a new baby comes along.

Though you may will find that after the baby is born, your son will look at you changing the nappies and think for himself, "I'm not a baby any more" and be ready.

phdlife · 09/02/2011 11:35

fwiw, my ds was coming up to 2 when dd was due and although he was showing a lot of interest, I just couldn't face the thought of it myself so I left it. (Strenuously resisting the ILs' repeated suggestions.) After a couple of months, when I was damn good and ready, we got him started with the potty and he got it pretty much instantly. Seems to me, the longer you leave it, the readier she is, the easier it will be all round...

phdlife · 09/02/2011 11:40

oh I'm so sorry - should be, "the readier he is" [it's-late-I-should-go-to-bed emoticon]

Talou1 · 09/02/2011 11:48

Yes agree the readier they are the easier it is, but just wanted to point out that my mate introduced the potty a few months before the birth of the second, just to get her d.s used to the idea with no pressure to use it, and when the baby was born he wanted to use the potty straight away and took to it really quickly because he knew he would be getting praise and taking attention away from the new baby. Not daft!!

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